The Peter principle revisited: A computational study

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

Volumn 389, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 467-472

  Pluchino, Alessandro ^a,b   Rapisarda, Andrea ^a,b   Garofalo, Cesare ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

^b INFN SEZIONE DI CATANIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Agent based models; Organizations efficiency; Peter principle

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; COMPUTATION THEORY; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; GAME THEORY;

AGENT BASED SIMULATION; AGENT-BASED MODEL; COMPUTATIONAL STUDIES; HIERARCHICAL ORGANIZATIONS; HIERARCHICAL STRUCTURES; PARADOXICAL PRINCIPLES; PETER PRINCIPLE; PROMOTION STRATEGIES;

EFFICIENCY;

EID: 70350571235     PISSN: 03784371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2009.09.045     Document Type: Article

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